Awesome thread! One of the better I have seen in this forum.

Originally posted by Sugarlump
Pyros,

You got one of my way above votes for the month for that explanation. Thank you for shedding light on a topic that causes many of us confusion and bureaucratic Alphabet soup syndrome.

I Agree! You just shed a whole new light on how our government's maze of security and secrecy works. We descuss a lot of things here on ATS, but it isn't often that someone really share something truly enlightening about the world of Black Projects and Government secrets. You got my vote!

Tim

It's been several years now. Anyone hear of any new Black Aircrafts that may be flying?

Well if I have learned anything on these past years as a ATS member and listening and watching Washington politics and US defense budget hearings is that most of the Black projects although at some point they might have been real and operational most of them are closed or cancelled because they were A) Proof of concept B) Prototype aircrafts made my Lockheed/Boeing, etc. that never went into production thus consisting of a couple of frames C) Fell through the budget due to delays and failed to live through early promises.

Regardless of your beliefs on alien technologies, I do believe that in the end money and politics will always be the first priority therefore making black projects a very small part of what they were during the cold war. I for example believe that the Aurora project is a has been project and I am not sure it totally worked. I say this because what was supposed to be Aurora, hypersonic scramjets, have until very recently started to work through different x-Planes. Although people will say that these are covers for the project I believe that they just show how Aurora's technology failed to deliver and what was learned from that, is now being improved upon. My guess is because of the superior computer power today that allows to do things that in the 80's you couldn't do.

Black projects are about have a look at the photo from the Daily Mail, not the famous Belgium photo. but the one taken over the UK. I would like to think this is British but with the budget cuts I'm more than skeptical... I just cannot guess where the funding would come from (or how it could be justified!)